PSYC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Infant Mortality, Natural Selection, Major Depressive Disorder
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What is causing the ses-gradient and poor health: most children are born healthy, only 3-4% have a serious inheritable problem (physical, emotional, intellectual, initial answer: Low-ranked british civil servants are almost two times as likely to die from heart: risk factors (e. g. higher smoking rates) account for less than half the gap in mortality. White hall study (ses and death: result: disease than administrators rates, therefore: Important to ask how they feel about it and how they"re coping. Is it psycho-social stress? (subjective ses?) (refer to figure: method: Where would you put yourself on this ladder? : result, therefore: gradient and poor health! You feel stress body responds, thus you feel physiologically ill. Aging: gradual buildup of daily cracks and faults in dna strands and misplaced proteins, body repairs damage but not perfect, bodies prioritize energy for growing and reproducing over repairing.